John Locke and later empiricists dispute the rationalists' claim that pure reason could grasp truths about the world. They argue that all knowledge of the world must come through the senses and experience. Locke compares the mind at birth to a tabula rosa, a blank tablet. The colors, tastes, and sounds provided by our senses are only the raw material of knowledge, what Locke calls "simple ideas." He distances the mind from the external world and bridges this gap by saying that the senses make true copies of things that exist in the world.

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Locke, John, empiricists, knowledge, senses, experience, tabula rosa, simple ideas, true copies, Epistemology

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